Word: twins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate in Tiffany New York lounging is way downtown, at the top of the World Trade Center. The twin towers, thrusting high above the rest of New York's skyline, house the fabulous Windows-on-the-World restaurant and bar. If you want to eat dinner there, you'd better have your first million along, and also a reservation. The wait list for reservations is currently somewhere around three months...
...foreign fighter in the air today, including the Soviet Union's MiG-25 Foxbat, is deadlier than the twin-engine, $16 million F-15 that the Carter Administration wants to sell to Israel and Saudi Arabia. "It's beautiful," says Brigadier General John T. Chain Jr., who has been flying F-15s since they became operational three years ago. "It's the-first fighter aircraft that has all the capabilities a pilot wants: high thrust, tight turning, great visibility and every switch in the right place in a cockpit designed for the pilot...
...Minnesota, 2,200 educational computer terminals, from tiny farming communities to the Twin Cities, reach 92% of all students in the state. With a more than $1 million annual state grant for long-distance telephone charges, students are hooked into a statewide network by which, among other projects, social-studies students can simulate a national election, young biologists analyze the pollution of a lake, and future farmers learn how best to manage a given number of acres. ¶In Sunnyvale, Calif., Robert Albrecht is using personal computers to teach "kids how.to program computers so that they can teach other kids...
...plane seating seven abreast. But the plane can made with either two or three engines; seating can vary between 180 and 210, and ranges can be either 2,300 or 4,600 miles. Forward of the tail, where the third engine will be located, both the tri-jet and twin-jet will be virtually identical...
When her own children were born, Sunny raised them as if they were exiled royalty. Her husband, a prosperous Chicago banker, allowed her every whim; Sunny and the children-Brooks, Monty and Monty's twin sister Ethel-spent most of their early years at Eastern resorts or in Europe. The kids were privately tutored, and Sunny prevented them from mixing with anyone outside the family. She refused to lower her expectations even after Bill Clift lost his money in the Depression. Though the Clifts moved to a one-room apartment in Greenwich Village, the sheets were made of silk...